Diane Rosemary Lewis of Round Pond Lane in Sag Harbor, a teacher who spent more than 20 years in the Plainedge public school system in Nassau County, died in Sag Harbor on Feb. 3. The cause was complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She was 94.
Ms. Lewis served as president of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of Sag Harbor and the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry, and was a board member of the Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt.
Born Diane Rosemary Lallathin on Jan. 3, 1932, in Brooklyn to Charles Nelson Lallathin and the former Rosemary Hunt, she grew up in Hempstead, earning an associate’s degree in education from Nassau Community College in Garden City before going on to Hofstra University in Hempstead, where she earned a bachelor’s degree, also in education.
She was married to Cantor Walter J. Lewis, who had once been a member of the Philadelphia Opera. The couple lived in Wantagh from the late 1950s to 1997, where Cantor Lewis served the Suburban Temple for 18 years. The couple raised two children. In Sag Harbor, Ms. Lewis was a member of Temple Adas Israel.
She is survived by her children, Gail Lewis of Queens and Walter Todd Lewis of Waterford, Conn. A cousin, Joseph Trainor, also survives. Her husband died in 1981.
Ms. Lewis was cremated. A service will be held on the South Fork in May. Her family has suggested memorial contributions to the Peconic Land Trust, 296 Hampton Road, Southampton 11968, or peconiclandtrust.org.
